Sept. 16, 2026 Yesterday’s City Council rally and hearing on the excessive use of ed tech and screen time in our schools represented an important step forward in creating more awareness and pressure on the Department of Education to improve their weak guidelines on screen time for students, which have far too many loopholes and […]
Oct. 7, 2026 1.There’s an important bill just waiting on Gov. Hochul’s desk to be signed, S.9051/A.10379, that would restrict dangerous AI chatbots for the first time. Chatbots have been shown to undermine student learning, mental health and social development, yet they are still being used in many NYC schools –including Google Search, which acts […]
Sept. 10, 2026 Welcome back to a new school year! I hope you all had a great summer and a good Labor day break. There is a lot happening. Last week, the Mayor and the Chancellor announced new AI/screen time policies to be implemented this school year, while longer term guidance will be developed. Some […]
Tuesday August 25, 2026 NYC public schools begin on Sept. 10 – in a little over two weeks, yet there has been no update yet on the AI guidance that was first released in March and was supposed to be revised based on public feedback, and no sign as to whether our call for a […]
July 29, 2026 A bill called the College Transparency Act is being considered by the Senate HELP committee. It would overturn the prohibition against the federal government collecting personally identifiable student information and instead would authorize the creation of a new federal database to track all students enrolled in a higher education institution throughout their […]
July 22, 2026 Dear all: Hope you are having a relaxing summer. Meanwhile, here are some important dates and events coming up in the next week: 1- The deadline for families to sign up for a portion of the $17.25M Naviance court settlement for violating student privacy is this Monday, July 27. You […]
July 10, 2026 Hello everyone: 1. Chalkbeat published a piece on the Mayor’s education record after six months in office. Take a look and see what you think. If you can, call into my WBAI radio show at 7 PM this Sunday night at 212-209-2877 to say what grade you’d give him or […]
June 29, 2026 Hello everyone: The state-mandated class size hearings are being held tonight Monday June 29 at 6 PM and run through Thursday via Zoom. Any parent, teacher or community member can attend one of these meetings to speak out about what the DOE’s class size plan should include to make sure your school […]
June 25, 2026 1. Please sign up for our Zoom briefing this Sunday at 5 PM if you haven’t already, where we will summarize the changes in the class size law, point out the serious flaws in the DOE’s proposed class size plan for next year, and provide strategies that parents and teachers […]
June 23, 2026 1. Many hundreds of NYC schools applied for class size funds for next year and were rejected without explanation; other schools which had smaller classes this year may fall out of compliance because the DOE so far refuses to align its enrollment policies with the class sizes required by law. […]
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